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The manager of a Welsh coal mine in which four men died has been charged with manslaughter.

Charles Breslin, Philip Hill, Garry Jenkins and David Powell were killed when the Gleision mine near Pontardawe, South Wales, flooded during blasting work in 2011.

The pit manager, Malcolm Fyfield, 57, was charged yesterday with four counts of gross negligence manslaughter over their deaths. The company which owns the colliery, MNS Mining Ltd, has also been summonsed to answer four counts of corporate manslaughter.

A rescue operation was launched at the small hillside mine after its sudden collapse.